Rate My Professor Bethany Michel

Bethany Michel, PhD, is a sessional instructor in the clinical area of the Department of Psychology at the University of British Columbia, where she initially joined the faculty in 2011 and has taught annually since 2018. She delivers undergraduate courses on psychopathology and graduate courses on psychological interventions for children and adolescents. Dr. Michel also serves as a lecturer in the School of Applied Child Psychology at UBC. Her academic background includes a B.A. from Stanford University, as well as an M.A. and Ph.D. in clinical science from Harvard University. She completed her predoctoral internship in the Child Track at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and her postdoctoral fellowship at the DBT Centre of Vancouver.

As a licensed psychologist (CHCPBC #2475), Dr. Michel is the Director of the Child, Adolescent, and Family Division at the DBT Centre of Vancouver, a position she has held since 2017. Her research specializations encompass child and adolescent suicide, nonsuicidal self-injury (NSSI), severe emotion dysregulation, and caregiver interventions for their families. In her clinical practice, she conducts assessments and treatments for adolescent mood disorders and self-harm behaviors. She leads Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) programs tailored for children aged 5-12 and adolescents aged 13-19 who exhibit severe emotion dysregulation, personality disorders, and suicide or self-harm tendencies. Dr. Michel provides parenting interventions, offers training and supervision in DBT to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, and conducts workshops for mental health professionals, teachers, and parents throughout Canada and the United States on topics including child and adolescent emotion dysregulation and suicide prevention strategies. Her contributions bridge academic teaching, research, and clinical application in psychology.